Episode 29 - Nick Flanagan (Teen Crud Combo & Brutal Knights)

Come and sit in as your host Damian invites in his friend and lead singer hero Nick Flanagan. Sit back and learn about how Nick went form being a zine writing indie kid to fronting Teen Crud Combo and Brutal Knights.

Also covered:
-Writing for kid shows
-Finding punk through SCTV and The Queen Haters
-The Young Lions
-Hilarious House Of Frightenstien: Like a Psychedelic Punk Dream
-You Can’t Do That On Television
-Meeting Andrew from the Deadly Snakes (and a Starkweather cover band)
-The Grunge Stole Christmas and a list of bands that sounds like a Best Show call
-Borrowing a record from your neighbor
-Writing to Nardwuar
-Damian’s Punk origin story
-DnD Raves
-Having to ditch your friends
-CFNY on Bloor Street: so sick
-Submachine
-Will the geographical layout of record stores in Toronto ever be relevant to anyone?
-How the band NC-17 shaped the face of modern music.
-Armed And Hammer, Repeat Offender, Hockey Teeth, Random Killing and the lost Toronto punk scene
-Suckerpunch
-Leather Uppers
-Walking around Toronto
-Nick the 9th Grade Goth
-The 90’s: When everyone was a dick
-Dave from Rammer: Headcleaners's Hypeman
-Doing the first ever Toronto Nardwuar and the Evaporators show at 14
-Being threatened by the Market Punks
-Nick form the Deadly Snakes: the indie kid
-Making friends with the Shuttlecocks
-Jamie Towns: ONE OF THE BEST PEOPLE EVER!!!!
-Allison Baker: The coolest
-Befriending Spaceshits (pre King Kahn and BBQ and Red Mass)
-The Anti-Flag, Spaceshits, Deadly Snakes and (maybe) Planet Smashers slumber party in Drake’s old Neighborhood
-Golden showers from King Kahn
-The weird disparate Montreal 90’s scene
-Getting groomed by Allison to be the singer of Teen Crud Combo
-Staining the soul as a teenager
-The Deadly Snakes, Toxic Holocaust, Rammer, Teen Crud Combo connections
-The Killer Elite
-MONDO-GRUNGE
-Full Blast Rock
-Shows at the back of Rotate This
-Damian and Nick debate strain differentials in cannabis
-Not being able to deal with pop-punk vocals for a while
-Nick Resets The Rap
-The hoser-pseudo-hip-hop way of downtown Toronto speaking
-The Dwarves influence
-Greg Dick and the Dreamdates
-The origins of the Teen Crud Combo vs. Deadly Snakes beef
-The continual rediscovery of the Stooges
-The Robin Black beef
-Fifth Column are amazing!!!!